Talk:Xinit

Running "Notes" Section

The two sets of notes at the bottom of xinitrc#Configuration should be condensed in some way. The first five bullet points all concern which tty X is running on. I could create this as its own subsection, and contain the information there, though I am not entirely convinced that this is necessary/appropriate/needed on this page at all. Would it be more appropriate to merge the relevant sections into the Xorg article, perhaps? Pid1 (talk) 00:30, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

First of all, the first 4 points are inaccurate. Back in 2013, this was indeed handled by the default /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which contained

Thanks for the insights. I will cross-reference the documentation with what is provided here, and update accordingly. Pid1 (talk) 13:01, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

I've split this off into a new Running section. I think this section should be split into startx and xinit subsections and explain the details of using xinit in a way that is not a block of notes Ziusudra (talk) 00:19, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

propose to add to automatic startx

When combine automatic startx + automatic login to console, it may come to infinite loop/crash if (a) ~/.xinitrc goes wrong somewhere, after editing; or (b) after pacman -Syyu and Xorg crash. I propose to check if the last GUI session (startx session) really last long before start a new one.

Thanks Lahwaacz. But (a) so the age of a file is based on it's creation time, not update time. OK, i did not know that. (b) about the startx exit code, i am not sure that it will correctly set if i edit something wrong in ~/.xinitrc which make GUI session crash

I just tried to change the resolution of X (xrandr...) and ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log updated and get the new timestamp Triplc (talk) 21:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)